The Wisemen Know, Volume 6

The title tells it all – basketball experts are going to tell you what they think of the Lithuanian team chances in the upcoming Euroleague games as well as a weekly question about European hoops in general. The panel will consist of well-respected coaches (Luka Bassin and Tane Spasev), scouts (Alejandro Gonzalez and Rafael Uehara) and many different basketball writers (Arkadios Chasirides, Christophe Ney, John Hobbs, Nick Gibson, Os Davis, Sebastian Komianos,Simon Jatsch) and even a pro basketball player Milan Prodanovic. I can assure you that these clever minds will all surely have something interesting to share.

To make it even more interesting, there’s a catch involved as each of the experts had only one limitation in the process – the thoughts had to fit in a tweet (140 characters).

NO ACO , NO PROBLEM

Alejandro Gonzalez:Despite they’re not doing well, I don’t see Caja Laboral out of competition so soon, and that means a win in Kaunas. Caja Laboral wins.

Christophe Ney:The best Lithuanian might be Paulius Jankunas. He was the most regular from a statistical point of view.

John Hobbs:Woah! Tough one, I’m going on the best player I have seen myself so far and that has been Mantas Kalnietis. The young guard has quietly been getting the job done for Zalgiris, and has been a great team player. [Not sure if this actually fits into the limitations, but who the hell cares… – Simas]

Luka Bassin:No doubt – Ksistof Lavrinovič from Montepaschi Siena is best Lithuanian in Euroleague so far.

Milan Prodanovic:This is a tough question, ill have to go with Lavrinovic (and not because of the serbian last name!) Great glue guy/ sixth man.

Nick Gibson: Even though his production has dropped off in the past few weeks, Paulius Jankunas’ maturity got Zalgiris off to their hot start.

Os Davis:I’ll go with Paulius Janukunas and his solid 9.5 ppg/7.9 rbg in EL play, but most exciting from Lietuva has got to be Martynas “Air” Pocius.

Rafael Uehara:Ah… Gecevicius. Actually the one having the best season is not playing in the EL. Apparently Motiejunas is dominating Italy + EuroCup.

2 thoughts on “The Wisemen Know, Volume 6”

Lietuvos Rytas did an impressive run to stay alive in competition at Group C, despite the fact that the defending champs were highly favored to win their match up in Week 9. If they could secure another one, then they could be seeing their ticket to top 16, which makes week 10 an exciting finale to the first round of this season!